edit PDF text with Illustrator - keeping the file size

[RaisaFraiman]

Hi Anyone who could help me,

Is a bit tricky question, hopefully I manage to explain it correctly and that someone can help me.

I got 3 PDFs files, all this this files hade the same size file; 1.4 MB

I only needed to change one thing; the recent Text to another text. I tried to edit on the Acrobat but it didn't manage to select to the text I wanted to edit. So I transfer it to illustrator and manage to change it easy. Now, when it was time to save as to pdf. The pdf size file changed, I only change a text which was 3 sentences and in original had 3 sentence. Than I changed all of this 3 pdf files and all of than where different size file. I open them on acrobat and tried out optimize, reduce .. but I never manage to succeed the 3 files be on the same size file like I got it in original. How does this work? how did the other person manage to do this before? (MacBook Pro computer).

Thank you!! 

[barbara_a]

I would need to see the files in question before making suggestions.

[Monika Gause]

Please read this about editing PDFs:

Prepression: The Ten Commandments of PDF

That PDF might have been created with a different application.

On top of that the options you choose when saving the PDF will have impact on the filesize

[Test Screen Name]

Focus on going it in Acrobat, not Illustrator. Wrong tool if you are bothered about file size.

[barbara_a]

I'm in agreement with Test Screen Name. I know that you already tried editing the text in Acrobat, but you didn't say which steps you did and exactly what was the outcome. Perhaps something was overlapping the text and preventing you from selecting it. If so, you could work around that limitation.